About

The Hitchlog gives a real on hitchhiking
We try to paint it with
and to give back to the who picked us up.

Hitchhiking is quite an interesting
way of traveling. The eventful journey, the encounter with
many interesting and generous drivers and the experience of
diversity in our society sets it apart from taking a train or
driving by bus. It is more than just a way of getting from A
to B.

The Hitchlog gathers the stories and experience of hundreds of hitchhikers
and puts them together with pictures, stories and data about the journey.
It creates statistics for one hitchhiker as in having a profile with
all the gathered data, as well as statistics for all hitchhikers as in
what is the overall gender of all hitchhikers.
This will paint a real, authentic picture about what Hitchhiking
is actually like.

A picture that is untouched of it's reputation spread by public media or movies.
A picture which hopefully shows the world what a great way of travelling this is.

Friends:

Tramprennen

Since 2006 a growing group of hitchhikers are racing around Europe
by hitchhiking. They are organized in teams and within two weeks
the teams arrive step by step at a final destiniation.

Since 2008 Tramprennen supports the NGO VivaConAgua. VivaConAgua build clean water
suplies in third world countries. Together with 96 Teams and 232 attendees,
Tramprennen managed in 2011 to gather money worth building 6 remarkable
water suplies around the equator.

Visit Trampprenenn.org to find out about the
latest project where you could become part of as well.

Hitchwiki

Just like Wikipedia, Hitchwiki is a
wiki but for hitchhiking. Hitchhikers from all around the world share tips
and information all around hitchhiking. It helped many hitchhikers to find
a good spot to leave the city and is really useful.

Contributors

If you happen to speak a language other than english well and you would like to help translate the Hitchlog,
please send Florian a message, he will set you up for the
translation. It is pretty easy and whether you believe it or not, it is even fun!

Contribute

The Hitchlog lives off the community and without hitchhikers logging trips
this application is worthless. Logging previous hitchhiking trips and
telling some stories is already really helpful. You can also spread the
word by telling your fellow hitchhiking friends about the site.

At the moment Florian is developing and
maintaining this application. He is always on the lookout for other
developers who would like to get involved. Also he gets very happy if
someone shoots him a mail, telling him that he likes the idea of the Hitchlog.
The application is completely open-source and available on
Github.

How To Contribute

If you want to see Hitchlog in your locale language, help to translate the webpage.
Please drop a line to `florian@hitchlog.com`

Help with programming.
The source code is on Github
Currently Florian is developing and maintaining the hitchlog.
If you want to contribute with programming the future, go for it!
Ruby on Rails is a great and fun framework!
Shoot Florian a mail in case you want to help out.

Give it a shout on twitter, facebook or another social medium.

Log Hitchhiking Trips

If you would like to give some feedback, help or if you just want to say
hello, please get in touch by sending Florian an email:
florian@hitchlog.com